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authorrillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org>2007-06-15 10:26:53 +0000
committerrillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org>2007-06-15 10:26:53 +0000
commit303376199b786480c916674b45ef974c08b375a4 (patch)
treeb68462cd6c114b58fb39789a6c7d2e4bd7789261
parent302551e0429f5693c6f5e85afdeebd2bc7cfddc5 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-303376199b786480c916674b45ef974c08b375a4.tar.gz
Added a paragraph about the naming of the patch files.
-rw-r--r--doc/guide/files/components.xml5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guide/files/components.xml b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
index 297a931eba4..7e37e54dcf9 100644
--- a/doc/guide/files/components.xml
+++ b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.35 2007/06/01 11:07:24 rillig Exp $ -->
+<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.36 2007/06/15 10:26:53 rillig Exp $ -->
<chapter id="components"> <?dbhtml filename="components.html"?>
<title>Package components - files, directories and contents</title>
@@ -297,6 +297,9 @@ converters games mbone print x11
and usually makes it possible to remove the patch in future
version.</para>
+ <para>The file names of the patch files are usually of the form
+ <filename>patch-<replaceable>[a-z][a-z]</replaceable></filename>.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="components.patches.sources">
<title>Sources where the patch files come from</title>